Reflection on Post-Production

Here I'll be talking about myself and how I did with this week's editing and such.


1. Some of the things that went right are that I had a pretty good base to begin with, about 4.5 minutes, and then after seeing that genre examples were about 8-10 minutes all I had to do was add a little more detail and content, but it wasn't too much of a task because I didn't have any introduction, music, or sign-off. After doing that I only needed to add about a minute of extra content, which was easy because I elaborated on most of my points as specificity is key here.


2. What didn't go well is I procrastinated, as usual. But here's the thing when something is due Sunday- this Sunday is easter and I'll be home so I won't want to do it then. Tuesday through Thursday I have class from 10am to 4pm so those afternoons I'm trying to focus on stuff that's due the next day (and eat lunch at 4 o clock). I never start before Tuesday because I find that it helps to get some details in class on how I should be going about things. So I have Friday and Saturday to get these done. But factor in all my other classes plus greek life obligations plus I like to go to the gym if I'm able, so I really don't have that much time.

And I'm not complaining, it's definitely not anyone else's fault, this is just my defense for continually procrastinating... cue crying laughing emoji because I don't want to sound hostile.


3. The good news though is because I've been pretty much made to procrastinate since the beginning of the semester just due to the nature of my life, I've started to fall into a rhythm and now I kind of know what I'm doing so that I can sort of plan for the procrastination. I usually at least figure out what I need to do beforehand, then do half the work on Friday and half on Saturday because let's be honest, doing homework on Sunday sucks.

So I think since I've had a few weeks practice at this, next week should go just fine. Shoutout to Bottai for revamping the schedule to contain less blog posts, this has made my forced procrastinating a lot easier.


4. I'm feeling pretty good about the project and I'll tell you why. I had pretty solid scores on my last project for content, the only thing that I really got docked on was the format. So I feel confident in my ability to produce quality content, and this time around I'm doing a podcast. The conventions of a podcast are, I feel, way easier to get exactly right because it's all audio. The only other things are intros, out-tros (is that a word? It is now) and music. Talk for 8 minutes with an NPR kind of vibe and you're good to go as long as your content is golden, and I feel like mine is. So I'm pretty confident overall.